PeopleFinderNow Newsletter-Oct-17-2006


1. October 11, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- The three private investigators charged in Hewlett-Packard Co.'s spying scandal pleaded not guilty to felony charges in the case.

The three were arraigned Tuesday in Santa Clara County Superior Court in California. All were released without bail after entering their pleas, said Nathan Barankin, a spokesman for California Attorney General Bill Lockyer.

The three investigators facing charges are Ronald DeLia, managing director of Security Outsourcing Solutions, and Matthew Depante and Bryan C. Wagner, both of Action Research Group.

They face charges of fraudulent wire communications, wrongful use of computer data, identity theft and conspiracy. Their next court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 17, the same day that former HP Chairman Patricia Dunn is set to be arraigned on similar charges.

Also charged is Kevin Hunsaker, HP's former ethics counsel, who is set to be arraigned on Dec. 6. Dunn and Hunsaker have not entered pleas. Lockyer's office brought charges against the five, alleging that Dunn and Hunsaker authorized an illegal leak investigation in which phone records of journalists, HP directors and employees were obtained under false pretenses, a practice known as "pretexting."

WATCH THE HEARING AS IT APPEARED ON CPAN!

http://www.c- span.org/ videoarchives. asp?CatCodePairs =,&ArchiveDays= 100

2. zoom info I was looking for someone & this site popped up in my search. It had the info. I needed & I did not find it any place else.

http://www.zoominfo.com/

3,FREE SKIP TRACE RESOURCES! Many of you know these resources, but they are always worth repeating for those who do not.

MISSING PERSONS -SKIP TRACE RESORUCE CENTER

articles and aids

http://www.pimall.com/nais/missingm.html

SKIP TRACE HOTLINKS Search list

http://www.pimall.com/nais/SKIPTRACE.HTM

FREE PUBLIC RECORDS SEARCHES ON THE NET

Sectioned by state http://www.pimall.com/nais/ publicrecords/freesearch.htm

4. Some thoughts on Obtaining Financial Info

Every so many months I see a burst requests on some E-groups for information about requests for financial locates. As one who understands the ins and outs of these locates, I’d like to offer some of my personal concerns. What I want to speak to are the three (3) ways of getting information legitimately, and the problems of some.

First, most of us know that under the GLB act, pretexting is no longer permitted in order to get financial information. But that is not a problem, because there are other legitimate methods, sound and effective ones.

Second, there is an increase of people doing these searches using strictly ChexSystems, and advertising them on our E-groups. They offer information from $50 to $300. But this ChexSystems is information that most of us can already access for ourselves from Atlasscore.com and Datafaxinc.com and Calcoastcredit. com. Costs vary from $1.50 to about $3.00 per search. This extremely limited ChexSystems method is being touted as equal to other methods. It is not.

In my view, reselling this ChexSystems information is simply unconscionable. Again, it is most often incomplete and very inaccurate. I use it every day, and am almost always disappointed. But for a $1.50, why not give it a shot? The information I get, AT BEST, is just a bank name where an account was applied for. No account numbers, and no balances, no note as to whether the application was acctually accepted, or if the account is still open. Hardly the type of information that professionals want to rely on for their clients.

Third, the main way to distinguish between these ChexSystems locates (also know as E-funds,) is to ask if the person pushing it provide balances. Usually the ChexSystem guy will say, “Oh, can’t do that. It’s not GLB compliant.” But nowhere does it say in GLB that balances or accounts can’t be supplied, only that we can’t pretext for them. The real reason ChexSystems suppliers limit their information is because they can’t get it and don’t know how to have it.

5.Military Information

To determine if an individual is currently serving in any of the military services, you can use this public information website: https://www.dmdc.osd.mil/scra/owa/home

You'll need his/her SSN and last name or last name, first name and DOB. It won't tell you where they're serving, only if they're serving and in what branch.

6. trap lines

www.getonecall. com very cool "trap" service, never failed to reverse a number for me.
www.ureach.com a little less expensive "trap" line, has failed on several occasions to give me the number that I needed to be reversed.

7. Fooling caller ID's

https://www. skiptracy. com is a recommended site. Very Very Effective.
Just make sure you know the rules and regs about Pretexting.

Spoof Communications offers you the ability to change what someone sees on their call display when they receive a phone call. When they look to see who's calling; you can show any phone number you wish. You are fooling them by not showing your real phone number and they think someone else is calling.

http://www.spoofcom.net/ 8.Background Searches/Criminsl Records

We use www.gaprs.com for criminal records nationwide. They send people to the county clerks office and actually research the files on-site. They are also very reasonably priced. This is the only database that I trust, although some good information can be had for free if you know where to look. Using more than one source is always the safest bet.

9. Conducting an Army Search

There are some real problems with this type of inquiry.

First, the DoD will NOT provide SSNs on any former or current servicemember without a court order, or unless the subject/vet him/herself has signed a release/waiver authorizing such release - this can be done in a letter or with a Standard Form 180 (aka: SF-180). Prior to 1969 Army and AF personnel were issued service numbers (SN) and were not filed by SSN, but by SN (the Navy, Marines and CG shifted to SSNs in 1974). Without that service number and/or the original SSN you won't get any info on this guy at all because all milpers are filed by one or the other - or both. Not by name. If you know what unit he was in you can get a unit morning report or roster which will provide his name and his service number. SNs are not protected under the Privacy Act and, therefore, are public record and available. Depending on when and where he served, these reports can be held in either Washington DC, College Park, MD, or St. Louis MO.

There's an ongoing project in the National Archives to cross-ref all vets' service numbers with SSNs, but with the millions of records on file this may never actually ever be complete. Don't forget, on that VA stolen laptop there were over 26.5 million vets' and active duty records - and those were only vets who were separated after 1975.

Without the SN and/or SSN they won't even start a search - especially if it's a fairly common name. All milrecs are paper files, there are no databases, especially for vets. All recs have to be hand searched and they don't have the manpower to search by name. Ergo, the numbers.

Also, fingerprints will not be on file in his/her service record. They may be available, but again, not without a court order and, I believe, even then, only to sworn law enforcement in a current/upcoming/ ongoing investigation. Fingerprints are never released to third parties otherwise.



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